The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 8Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 |
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... Organic Motion in its Connec- tion with Nutrition , ' in which he gives a de- tailed calculation of the mechanical equivalent of heat , from the known specific heats of air . The contributions of James Prescott Joule , of Manchester ...
... Organic Motion in its Connec- tion with Nutrition , ' in which he gives a de- tailed calculation of the mechanical equivalent of heat , from the known specific heats of air . The contributions of James Prescott Joule , of Manchester ...
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... organic nature that gave Mayer his first inspiration concerning the true nature of heat , and yet it is precisely here that the only doubt as to the entire gener- ality of the law of conservation now exists . The most general test that ...
... organic nature that gave Mayer his first inspiration concerning the true nature of heat , and yet it is precisely here that the only doubt as to the entire gener- ality of the law of conservation now exists . The most general test that ...
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... organic combination . Literature now becomes more literary . The old forms were now only to some degree preserved : Trevisa translated the Poly- chronicon ' of Higden ( c . 1387 ) ; Barbour in the north wrote a rhymed chronicle of Bruce ...
... organic combination . Literature now becomes more literary . The old forms were now only to some degree preserved : Trevisa translated the Poly- chronicon ' of Higden ( c . 1387 ) ; Barbour in the north wrote a rhymed chronicle of Bruce ...
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... organic power giving place to elegant skill . In point of time belonging to both , John Milton in reality belongs to neither . More fully than anybody else he is the repre- sentative of Puritanism in literature : its zealous rages , its ...
... organic power giving place to elegant skill . In point of time belonging to both , John Milton in reality belongs to neither . More fully than anybody else he is the repre- sentative of Puritanism in literature : its zealous rages , its ...
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... organic substances . It was formerly thought that these " unorganized " ferments might be essentially different in their action from the so- called " organized " ferments , such as the yeasts , molds , and bacteria ; but it is now known ...
... organic substances . It was formerly thought that these " unorganized " ferments might be essentially different in their action from the so- called " organized " ferments , such as the yeasts , molds , and bacteria ; but it is now known ...
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